30 Years Together! (Or 28, or 18)
Sep. 30th, 2024 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerLast week Hawk and I had our anniversary. How long have we been together? Well, that depends on how you define "together". Counting from our first date, it's now been 30 years!
How long we've been married is a different question. That's just 18 years with this anniversary. Yes, both anniversaries are on the same day. We purposefully got married on the anniversary of our first date. Hawk always joked it was so that she'd only have to remember one date, not two.
Yes, the difference of 30 minus 18 means that we dated for 12 years before marrying. No, we didn't take breaks or see other people during that time. There were a couple of other reasons why we put off saying "I do". For 10 of those 12 years, though, we did live together as a couple. That's why I also include the number 28 in the anniversary mix. 28 years ago is when we decided to move out to California together from the East Coast after college/grad school and start our new lives. Together.
How long we've been married is a different question. That's just 18 years with this anniversary. Yes, both anniversaries are on the same day. We purposefully got married on the anniversary of our first date. Hawk always joked it was so that she'd only have to remember one date, not two.
Yes, the difference of 30 minus 18 means that we dated for 12 years before marrying. No, we didn't take breaks or see other people during that time. There were a couple of other reasons why we put off saying "I do". For 10 of those 12 years, though, we did live together as a couple. That's why I also include the number 28 in the anniversary mix. 28 years ago is when we decided to move out to California together from the East Coast after college/grad school and start our new lives. Together.
